Fox News has been operating all these years thinking yeah we don't really have to worry about it does this settlement tell us no actually the stakes have changed. Eric Winkle media critic Washington Post: "I'm really pissed about the way Fox News has defended this not only in court but in their public relations statements" The first amendment doesn't mean anything if something like this goes without consequences because then you can just lie and damage people's lives, he says.
$787.5 million. (To Dominion Voting Systems, averting a defamation trial that could have been disastrous for the network. The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple explains.)
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Miles Bryan, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.
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